The Warehouse Theatre and Bank Windhoek Arts Festival will be launching the ‘Spear of Culture’, a cultural event alluding to the fact that music, dance and song represent a potent and unfailing envoy for various cultural heritages.

The vibrant Batswana cultural group consisting of about 20 young enthusiastic dancers and singers called Bana Ba Bothlaba (Children of the East) will be part of the Spear of Culture event.

The official launch will be at the Warehouse Theatre on Thursday, 24 May.
The doors open at 20h00 for 21h00 and tickets cost N$45 in advance and N$55 at the door.
This event aims at exposing choirs, cultural troupes and musicians who perform with traditional instruments, with an emphasis on customary Namibian art forms and messages, and is directed at the mature as well as the younger audiences, wishing to explore the rich cultural back-ground of the various Namibian people.
The cultural troupe to introduce the project is Bana Ba Bothlaba, a vibrant Batswana cultural group consisting of about 20 young enthusiastic dancers and singers. Bana Ba Bothlaba means ‘Children of the East’ and was established by the charismatic teacher Julia Goreetsamang Seitsang in 1998.
The group has since won every national price and laureate, amongst these, the First Prize at the Youth Expo 2006 Traditional Music and Drama Competition and the regional and National prize for best cultural troupe in 2000 and 2001.
Seitsang said even though the group’s core background is that of the Tswana language, it also sings and performs in Herero, Damara, Sotho and Xhosa. The ‘Spear of Culture’ dates will be from the official launch until the end of November.